maiden
n. 年轻未婚女子, 少女, 处女 a. 未婚的, 处女的, 初次的, 无经验的
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教材释义与例句
少女;处女
未婚的,处女的;初次的
释义与例句
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A girl or an unmarried young woman.
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A female virgin.
少女
处女
处子
古体She's unmarried and still a maiden.
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A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
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A maidservant.
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A clothes maiden.
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An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
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A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
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A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
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A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
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A maiden over.
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A machine for washing linen.
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Alternative form of Maiden.
宗教
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Virgin.
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Without offspring.
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Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
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Being a first occurrence or event.
比喻1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title.
The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.
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Being an over in which no runs are scored.
体育 游戏He bowled a record twelve maiden overs in his spell of 8-33 in 21 overs.
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Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
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Never having been captured or violated.
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Grown from seed and never pruned.
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上位词 5
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词源
From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.
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